Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...
View from the overlook on Kuwohi of the mountain peaks and ridges of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Getty Images It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by ...
Q: I was told that Mount Rogers in Grayson County was once a volcano. I would like to know if there is anything to it. Also, how did Buffalo Mountain get its unique shape? I relocated here to Roanoke ...
The federal government is considering renaming Kit Carson Mountain, a ridge with multiple fourteeners in southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. During a recent update for the Colorado ...
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he will “bring back the name of Mount McKinley” to the Alaska mountain known as Denali that is the tallest in the United States. The mountain, referred to as ...
Do you have a favorite Colorado landmark? Maybe the site of an important occasion? For Debbie Peterson, who lives just outside Palisade, the special Colorado place in her heart is Vestal Peak — with ...
Changing the names of landmarks in our country has become complex and controversial. Some of the landmarks may have been named after individuals or events associated with discrimination, racism or ...
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